OK, starting pidgin with full debug and w/o the unavailable domain I figured out:
After start I had 3 zobies, after waiting for a long period of time it stayes at the 3 zombies, i.e. no new ones were generated after the start period. Greping the full log for "DNS": (12:33:19) dnsquery: Performing DNS lookup for api.login.icq.net (12:33:19) dnsquery: Performing DNS lookup for irc.freenode.net (12:33:19) dnsquery: Performing DNS lookup for irc.mozilla.org (12:33:19) dnsquery: Performing DNS lookup for 192.168.0.1 (12:33:19) dns: Created new DNS child 4517, there are now 1 children. (12:33:19) dns: Successfully sent DNS request to child 4517 (12:33:19) dns: Created new DNS child 4519, there are now 2 children. (12:33:19) dns: Successfully sent DNS request to child 4519 (12:33:19) dns: Created new DNS child 4520, there are now 3 children. (12:33:19) dns: Successfully sent DNS request to child 4520 (12:33:19) dnsquery: Performing DNS lookup for 192.168.0.1 (12:33:19) dnsquery: Performing DNS lookup for 192.168.0.1 (12:33:20) dnsquery: Performing DNS lookup for api.icq.net (12:33:20) dns: Successfully sent DNS request to child 4517 (12:33:26) dnsquery: Performing DNS lookup for 205.188.11.86 (12:33:27) dnsquery: Performing DNS lookup for 205.188.11.25 (12:33:27) dnsquery: Performing DNS lookup for 64.12.73.194 => I *guess* it's related to the 3 DNS childs - at least the number is matching perfectly to the number of zombies... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1245666 Title: Pidgin is creating zombies with 13.10 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/+bug/1245666/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
